The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 59

I knew that after two hundred years a Prince would recall her to the light of day, and a Princess, in restoring to me the hand which my enemy had cut off, would give me back my natural form.

Who acts: I, Prince, my · What happens: know, recall, restore, cut off, give back, light · To what, where: Princess, Queen, light, hand, me, natural form · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Prince, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 recall	mark
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 years	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 recall	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 recall	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 recall	aux
11	recall	recall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	ccomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 recall	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 light	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 light	det
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 recall	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 day	case
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 light	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Princess	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Princess	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Princess	det
21	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 restoring	punct
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 restoring	mark
24	restoring	restore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 knew	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 restoring	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hand	det
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 restoring	obj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 cut	nsubj:pass
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 enemy	nmod:poss
31	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cut	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cut	aux
33	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hand	acl:relcl
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 cut	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 give	punct
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 give	aux
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 give	iobj
39	back	back	ADP	_	37 give	compound:prt
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 form	nmod:poss
41	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 form	amod
42	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 give	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	know	past	I	a Princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	recall	would	a Prince	Queen		the light of day	year	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to light=Destination
3	restore	gerund	I not said here	the hand	me			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to i=Recipient
4	cut off	past · perfect · passive		the hand				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
5	give back	would	I not said here	my natural form	me			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient form=Theme
6	light			day				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
7	form		my					nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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